Exploring Texture | DP Week 3

In photography, texture refers to the visual and sometimes tactile characteristics of the subject's surface being captured in a photograph. It adds depth and dimension to an image, making it more captivating to viewers. Texture can vary from being smooth, rough, soft, or gritty, among other qualities, and it often plays a significant role in shaping the overall composition and impact of a photograph.

Texture in photography can be categorized into two main types:

• Tactile texture: this refers to the physical texture you could feel if you touched the subject, such as the roughness of a rock or the softness of an animal's fur.
• Visual texture: visual texture is the illusion of texture created through patterns, lines, and contrasts in the image. It's the kind of texture that you can see but not necessarily touch.

For this assignment, I had to explore and take a series of photographs about texture, and then edit the best one.

As I went outside, I found different textures, but I couldn't find something I really liked, then I realized I had some interesting texture at home, my turtle, which has a lot of details in her body.

I took her outside to get better light and placed her on the ground, she started walking in the grass and I took some photos.

"Tiny" The Turtle

Because the grass was a little tall, she looked like she was kind of blending in, but she was still easy to find because of her colors and her special texture. You can see the texture and details in her shell, legs, and head.

Texture in the world around us is interesting because you see how everything has its special features. A visual texture gives you an idea of how something would feel or is in real life.

Texture serves as a fundamental element in visual storytelling through photography. By highlighting and manipulating texture, photographers can infuse their images with depth, and character.